Lamentations 5:1 Cross References - ISV

¹ A Prayer for Deliverance LORD, remember what has happened to us. Pay attention, and look at our shame!

³ They told me, “The survivors of the captivity there in the province are living in great distress and shame. Furthermore, the Jerusalem wall remains broken down and its gates have been burned by fire.”

⁸ Please remember what you spoke in commanding your servant Moses. You said, ‘If you rebel, I will scatter you among the nations

⁴ Nehemiah’s Prayer“Listen, our God, because we are being mocked. Let their insults fall back on them, and let them be dragged away as captives into exile.

⁷ Remember that my life is a breath; my eyes won’t go back to seeing good things.

⁹ “‘Please remember that you’ve made me like clay and you’ll return me to dust.

¹³ You made us a laughing stock to our neighbors, a source of mockery and derision to those around us. ¹⁴ You made us an object lesson among the nations; people shake their heads at us. ¹⁵ My dishonor tortures me continuously; the shame on my face overwhelms me ¹⁶ because of the voice of the one who mocks and reviles, because of the enemy and the avenger.

¹⁰ God, how long will the adversary scorn while the enemy despises your name endlessly? ¹¹ Why do you not withdraw your hand— your right hand—from your bosom and destroy them?

⁴ We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and a derision to those around us.

¹² Pay back our neighbors seven times the reproach with which they reproached you, LORD.

⁵⁰ Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servant! I carry inside me all the insults of many people, ⁵¹ when your enemies reproached you, LORD, when they reproached the footsteps of your anointed.

³ Have mercy on us, LORD, have mercy, for we have had more than enough of contempt. ⁴ Our lives overflow with scorn from those who live at ease, with contempt from those who are proud.

¹⁵ Jeremiah’s Revised ComplaintYou are aware— LORD, remember me, pay attention to me, and vindicate me in front of those who pursue me. You are patient— don’t take me away. Know that I suffer insult because of you!

²⁰ Look, LORD, how distressed I am; all my insides are churning. My heart is troubled within me, because I vigorously rebelled. Outside the sword brings loss of life, while at home death rules.

¹⁵ Everyone who passes by on the road shake their fists at you. They hiss and shake their heads at cherished Jerusalem: “Is this the city men used to call ‘The Perfection of Beauty,’ and ‘The Joy of the Entire Earth’”?

²⁰ Look, LORD, and take note: To whom have you done this? Should women eat their offspring, the children they have cuddled? Should priests and prophets be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

¹⁹ Remember my affliction and homelessness— wormwood and gall!

⁶¹ LORD, you listened to their insults— all their plots against me,

² LORD, as I listen to what has been said about you, I am afraid. LORD, revive your work throughout all of our lives— reveal yourself throughout all of our lives— when you are angry, remember compassion.

⁴² Then he went on to plead, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom!”